AGORA

The excavations in the Izmir Agora, known as the world's largest ancient agora in the city center, continue. A.D. The 2nd century bath structure was also discovered. The Agora of Smyrna (Izmir) covers a rectangular area in the center of the city, in accordance with the grid plan in this region. He was the administrative, political, judicial and commercial center of Smyrna. The slope of the land in the area where the Agora was planned was repaired in the basement floors, which were built in the west and the north. The agora courtyard has been made up to the upper level of the basement and made into a terrace. This terrace is surrounded by porticoes around the plane. The Smyrna Agora was used as a cemetery in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. Existing ruins and drillings, in accordance with the city's founding legend, immediately after Alexander the Great, BC. Pointing out that the buildings around it were planned at the end of the 4th century and the surrounding structures, the "Agora", which is a single word, means the place like the city square, the bazaar and the marketplace. In ancient times, besides the commercial, political and religious functions of agoras, it is known that the art is concentrated and many social events are passed or made, the city is the focal point. In ancient times, each city had at least one agora. In some big cities, there were usually two. One of them was the state agora, where the state works were seen, around which various public buildings were gathered, and the other was the trade agora where the commercial activities were concentrated.